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Re:Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019) by demopathos on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:25AM (#32603953)
Then you fall outside the probably. The overwhelming majority of people have a single address their entire life
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Re:Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019) by TedDoesntTalk on Friday August 26, 2022 @01:09PM (#32610145)
I guess those people only have one job their whole lives, too, and never lived before Gmail became popular.
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Re:Your online identity is owned by your email provider (2019) by demopathos on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:57PM (#32611371)
Jobs exepted for pretty clear reasons. And yes Gmail has been dominant for quite a bit of time - especially since the period where it was possible to have your email be your digital identity.
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